Word: congressmen
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Last night, Congressmen supporting the Moratorium kept the House of Representatives in session until shortly after 11 p.m. Opponents of an all-night vigil succeeded in forcing an adjournment by a close vote...
Citing the power of the military, Stone said that a $21 billion military appropriations bill was passed by the House after only for hours of debate, despite the fact that few, if any, Congressmen hadread the 2600 pages of testimony on the bill...
Massive rallies will be held in New York, Washington and many other cities. There will also be teach-ins, forums, prayers, and meetings at which the names of those killed in Vietnam will be read. Many of the 17 Senators and 17 Congressmen who support the Moratorium will speak at rallies around the country...
...Nixon's candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, South Carolina Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr., who was suddenly the center of an old-fashioned political donnybrook threatening to divide the Republicans, delight the Democrats and tarnish the President. All week long Washington was roiled by rumors, as Congressmen and Senators conferred with one another and the Administration, counted votes and then counted them again, examined the facts, their consciences, read their constituents' mail and weighed the choices...
...prospect should have been foreseen before eight of the Green Berets stationed in Viet Nam, including the Special Forces commander, Colonel Robert Rheault, were arrested last July. Certainly, when they were charged with the murder of Chuyen, the devastating public consequences were clear. Yet it took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army's reputation...